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Date issued: 9月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elacqua, Gregory;Munevar, Isabela;Sanchez, Fabio;Santos Morales, Humberto

To contribute to the debate about decentralization of education management, in this paper, we take advantage of the arbitrary rule used in Colombia to define the municipalities that can autonomously…

Date issued: 9月 2019
Author(s): Sosa, Martín;Caldo, Alejandra;Halles, Felipe;Tenoux, Guillermo

Por lo general, los Caminos de Bajo Volumen de Tránsito (CBVT) se diseñan y construyen con soluciones relativamente económicas en comparación a caminos que soportan mayores volúmenes de tránsito, sin…

Date issued: 9月 2019
Author(s): Nuguer, Victoria;Finkelstein-Shapiro, Alan

The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009 highlighted the role of the banking system as an important propagation mechanism of U.S. financial shocks to emerging economies (EMEs). Recent evidence…

Date issued: 9月 2019
Author(s): De Waziers, Benedicte;Morales, Olga;Gischler, Christiaan;Tejeda Ricardez, Jesus;Borja, Marco;Molina, María Julia;Duque, Andrés

Through this series of case studies, the IDB's Department of Infrastructure and Energy seeks to share its work in the region, the problems addressed, the challenges in implementing its projects…

Date issued: 9月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ruiz-Tagle V., Cristóbal;Schueftan, Alejandra

Ambient air pollution is a serious problem in cities in south-central Chile because of massive combustion of wood as fuel for residential heating. To reduce air pollution emissions, Chile’s…

Date issued: 9月 2019
Author(s): De Waziers, Benedicte;Morales, Olga;Gischler, Christiaan;Tejeda Ricardez, Jesus;Borja, Marco;Molina, María Julia;Duque, Andrés

A través de esta serie de casos de estudio, el Departamento de Infraestructura y Energía del BID pretende dar a conocer su trabajo en la región, los problemas que aborda, los retos en la…

Date issued: 9月 2019
Author(s): Lares, Mary Elena;Pacheco, Luis A.;Sucre, Carlos

El propósito del este documento es diseñar una agencia independiente modelo que administre y regule la actividad de exploración y producción de hidrocarburos – petróleo y gas natural –de un país…

Date issued: 9月 2019
Author(s): Heresi, Rodrigo

This paper investigates how low-frequency commodity price fluctuations trigger a reallocation process that endogenously generates a decline in manufacturing productivity. I build a model in which…

Date issued: 9月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Azuero, Rodrigo;Bosch, Mariano;Cardoza, Marvin;Sánchez-Navarro, Dennis

This paper advances understanding of the relationship between tax policy and productivity, taking advantage of unique data from the Dominican Republic to document a significant negative impact of tax…

Date issued: 9月 2019
Author(s): López Soto, David Daniel;Di Chiara, Lorena;Mejdalani, Alexandre Novaes;Carvalho Metanias Hallack, Michelle

This note is a picture about the situation of the planning models in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) and the discussion of the main challenges they will be facing with the innovation behind the…